What You Need to Know About the R-410A Phase Out
Nearly immediately after R-410A started to be used in HVAC equipment all over the United States, manufacturers and governmental organizations started to realize how bad it was for the environment. R-410A had a higher GWP than R-22, as well as being five times more than R-32 and three times greater than R-454B. Just to be clear, the term "environmentally friendly" is misleading. No refrigerant that is "friendly" to the environment is currently being utilized anywhere in the globe, as far as we know. Since no refrigerant that escapes into the atmosphere is good for or friendly to the environment, it is more a question of degrees (to what degree is this or that refrigerant causing harm). Why not choose a refrigerant that is less likely to hasten the earth's warming…